Greg Valentine - When A WWF Fan Attacked Blackjack Mulligan & Almost Killed Him in Boston

[@michaelamans2780]

From a fan of 70's and 80's wrestling (my childhood) these stories from The Hammer are just a gem. Thank You!!!

[@MaRkYWaHoO]

Same here…I’m 47 and find myself watching these along with old matches…it brings back so many memories of my childhood

[@rockyford3]

💯

[@brettmitchell8014]

I absolutely agree brother. My Era too

[@scottyellis3442]

I've been watching wrestling since the mid 70's & I could listen to Greg's stories all the time. His memories are my memories.

[@bunbee2025]

Greg has never ending stories….AMAZING!!! 👍🏾

[@mx5ish]

These Valentine interviews are gold!

[@mitch3384]

God it's refreshing to listen to a wrestling legend that doesn't sit there putting himself over and telling straight-faced bullshit.

[@MiKenZeKesArcade]

When you hear Greg "The Hammer" Valentine say.. "the fans in Boston are mean". I knew that tough S.O.B. had a ❤️

[@energyasylum997]

Haha 😂! 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👍

[@davidniemiec1973]

We love you in Detroit Greg. One of the most entertaining wrestlers of all time.

[@darrenhommell3414]

i could listen to hammer talk wrestling for years

[@cmd2973]

Loving all these behind the scenes Hammer stories. I used to hate him as a wrestler when I was a kid, like Honky Tonk. Nothing but respect for these guys.

[@MaliceMister]

Greg said it might have been before cell phones. I wasn’t there obviously, but can guarantee it was definitely before cell phones. 😂

[@thegobbledygooker731]

Thanks for all of these. Greg is a gem, and I'm glad he is chugging along and sharing this stuff. I was always a heel rooter, he and Piper were my favorites back in the day. Valentine could always be counted on to do a man's work whatever the situation.

[@kirkmuffie7542]

I ear you bro. Heels all the way, 😃

[@BillyBob-ld5nv]

Greg has something nice to say about everybody. Even a few who don't deserve it.

[@rrampage36]

@ItsStillRealToMe DamnIt Because it's the only place Greg and the rest of the phoney tough guys of the WWF will get their ass's kicked....🤕😵🤣🤣🤣

[@rrampage36]

@ItsStillRealToMe DamnIt No...BUSINESS is settled in the street...Fantasies like wrestling is PLAY ACTING in the ring. Just ask Mulligan or Valantine....Ya pencil neck geek 🤣

[@HALFBREEDxBILLYxGRAM]

@@rrampage36 pretty impressive coming from an anonymous keyboard wannabe.

[@614supercool]

As little kid I always cheered for The Hammer in Boston, Lowell and Worcester. I remember how mean people got back then, but I loved every minute of it.

[@underwriter100]

Agree with his synopsis on the Boston crowd. In Sammartino’s book, he talked about one match he had with Waldo Von Erich in the Boston Garden where a size C battery was thrown from the rafters by a fan. He said it landed in the ring during the match then bounced to the side & he wondered what would have happened had it hit one of them. During the baseball games in Fenway fans would also throw batteries at the visiting players in the outfield. This was in the 70’s

[@nelsonsweeney2822]

Always impressed with TitleMatch interviews with Greg the Hammer. & Pretty much everything TMN puts out. High quality videos that make me want to watch more. 👍

[@philaman1972]

Greg has the best stories! A true legend of the game...

[@detroitboss7342]

A quick Greg Valentine story: First, he was my favorite wrestler back in the day (I usually liked the heals) Saw him and Brutus Beefcake wrestle a tag match (against The British Bulldogs I think it was) in Detroit around 1985, at the Joe Louis Arena. We knew which lot the wrestlers parked their cars in, so we waited in the hallway near that lot's exit. After a few minutes, I saw Valentine, Beefcake and Valentine's wife walk down the hallway, and then disappeared around a corner. After a couple of more minutes, we decided to wait IN the parking lot for the wrestlers to come out. It was winter, so it was cold, and after waiting a few minutes leaning up against one of the parked cars, trying to block the cold wind blowing in from the Detroit River, out comes Valentine, his wife and Beefcake - wearing a full length men's fur coat. They walked in our direction and right up to us, and, would't you know it, we're leaning on Valentine's rental car! Beefcake kind of gave me a LOOK, and Valentine stopped in front of me, then laughed and said "thanks for keeping my car warm". Brutus laughed, and I moved away so they could open the door and get in. I was so surprised that he was talking to me, and that I was leaning on HIS car, I forgot to ask for an autograph. Lol! He was really a nice guy, and his hot wife gave us a smile as they drove away. Now the Joe Louis Arena is gone. Miss the old days.

[@thehouseofcm]

❤️Legends.

[@gopherstate777]

Valentine and Medusa were together also.

[@TruthBTold-]

Man, thanks for sharing this 😄🙏🏾...Love 🔨 Valentine.

[@detroitboss7342]

@@TruthBTold- 👍💪

[@michaelforbes4547]

It's not about the weather in Massachusetts...we're just assholes.

[@jamiepreston1490]

Correction: Massholes! That's what I was told anyway. Lol

[@meanstavrakas1044]

I live in Charlotte, North Carolina. I have seen many of these Wrestlers out shopping over the years. The 1970s & 1980s was when most of the South's top Wrestlers lived here. Many still do.

[@scottweaver4004]

The hammer is the best. Love these interviews

[@reallifelebowski4732]

Greg is right Blackjack and his partner Lanza in my AWA region did turn baby face.. They both wore White Hats and White leather vests to the ring and feuded with the Heenan family Also R.I.P to Blackjack Lanza who died yesterday - Dec 8th ,2021

[@michaelfish35]

I saw a lot of matches, as a teen in the 80s at the Boston Garden. When the wrestlers would enter the building, they would walk through a lane made by iron rails, right through the crowd to get to the locker room. As a young fan I loved it. As an adult, looking back, I think it was a really bad setup for the wrestlers.

[@LuckyStrike01]

Yeah it probably sucked for them. I remember as a kid being able to talk to the wrestlers on their way back to the locker room inside, you could try to hit them up for autographs but the heels usually were busy getting thru the crowd and by the time they saw us kids the locker room was a beacon of hope and they told us to screw. Faces if you were lucky would stop but not usually. Beefcakes first wife was from my town and he lived there for a while and was working at the MBTA doing coke and someone saw the powder and he didn’t say it was his and they cleared out the station in fear of anthrax. I think it was one of the old token booths. My boss when I was a teen and early 20s was friends with his wife and she would come by every so often, occasionally he would stop by.

[@energyasylum997]

@Lucky Strike Holy crap! Thnx for that! Soo cool to hear!!

[@richardcoreno]

Before WWF moved shows to the Richfield (OH) Coliseum, the company's venue was old Public Hall in downtown Cleveland -- which had balcony seating and temporary floor seats (metal folding chairs) around the ring......and irate fans would occasionally launch cups of drinks that would mostly drench folks and not the heel(s) they were hating.

[@herbpearl9376]

As a native Masshole I laughed my ass off over this. I’m not sure if it’s the weather or not but Mr. Valentine is correct! It’s a small, overpopulated state with horrible weather full of mean and hateful people…. That’s why I LOVED Greg Valentine growing up and cheered whenever he’d break someone’s leg! 🤣

[@loboblanco4426]

Same. Nearly pissed myself listening.

[@hedkace]

I was saddened to hear him mention my hometown as a bunch of mean pricks, but I don't disagree with him either...haha

[@lostinaz7220]

I grew up in Mass and used to go to the Centrum in Worcester to see WWF. I left 30 years ago for AZ, never looked back.

[@lostinaz7220]

LoL I have relatives in Worcester and Lowell.

[@spottss]

He nailed it. People who visit Boston just go around the city as tourist. They don’t have to live amongst ignorant mass holes 24/7

[@MrAhhh33]

Spent the 2012 Charlotte Fanfest with Kevin Sullivan, Shane Douglas and we hung out and had dinner with a huge party. Hammer was in that party. Super down to earth guy that you can smoke a bowl with

[@terryhutton8548]

Thank you greg for entertaining us for years

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

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[@reilneid6436]

Damn David, I say the same thing every time I comment...lol He is 100% real professional wrestler. Not a sports entertainer. I was lucky enough to see his Dad wrestle the Sheik here in Detroit at Cobo Hall. Like father like son. Total badass. I saw Greg also wrestle Tito Santana at Joe Louis. He's my all-time favorite by far

[@TheSportsfan35]

His Dad was the man as far as I'm concerned. I've never understood why his Dad never got a world title run, I mean Vince's Dad as well as the NWA put their world titles on Buddy Rogers for God's sake, & Johnny was just as good as Buddy, if not a little better.

[@reilneid6436]

@@TheSportsfan35 agree 100% Travis. Johnny & Greg were total professional wrestlers. Johnny held over 50 belts & Greg over 40. That's just absolutely crazy. From Japan to Canada. Good matches of Johnny Valentine on KZbin. He actually held WWWF tag team belts w/Tony Paris. Tough guy & one of my all-time favorites.

[@Ontheastcoast]

I love all these stories of back in the day

[@ericdravenX00X]

Greg is a Great interview you dont have too ask him many questions and if you ask him a question you can just let him go.. He always has a cool story with alot of them i all about those longwinded answers..

[@jwparsons1]

Blackjack was huge in Mid Atlantic.

[@BigT4pres]

And Texas wrestling

[@andymassingham]

That “Well!” at 0:25 struck me as the least Greg Valentine thing I have ever heard Greg Valentine say😂

[@1980bwc]

He was changing the scent of the room. 😂

[@georgejackson4426]

The Hammer is one of the very few wrestlers who goes out of his way NOT to trash other wrestlers in these shoot videos and isn't bitter.

[@dondemmeljr1765]

Last I remember traveling with Greg years back he liked beaches with rocks, or anywhere else for that matter! LOL ...😁🍺 glad to see the Hammer is still with us 👍

[@billschmidt4192]

Valentine has Wisdom!

[@dennisrowan9700]

How cool is Greg Valentine? Great interview and a consummate gentleman!! Keep it coming, Hammer!!

[@valetudo1974]

Valentine a great story teller and an amazing wrestler and champion...

[@billo6938]

Lifelong Bostonian here. My mother's uncle Pat (from Ireland) lived in Boston and used to go the the WWE matches every month held at the old Boston Garden and claimed he was there when Blackjack Mulligan was stabbed. Bostonians are miserable as part of the culture, nothing to do with the weather. I was at a Bruins game once and overheard two security guards talking bout how they were going to work the upcoming WWE matches and what they were going to wear for protection from the fans. This included a cup, inline skating elbow and kneepads, and a mouth guard. As Rodney Dangerfield used to say 'a tough crowd, I tell ya'.

[@Umbriel-c8r]

Yeah Boston and Worcester especially is the armpit of Mass and both are known for the nastiness. Just listen to maak walberger!

[@KB-rm6pt]

Greg is awesome! . I wish he was my uncle ...Thank you for the memories !

[@Moodymongul]

6:23 - With a clenched fist, Greg has no knuckles showing! 'The Hammer' was obviously a very apt nickname :)

[@dave-rf2vn]

I love Greg now . Lol hated you for attacking flair though when I was a kid because wrestling was real back then 🤣

[@stephenrogers4537]

"These people in Boston are mean"😂😂

[@YodaMiyagi]

Boston is a very arrogant City

[@jimbike8064]

Dropping a fire extinguisher on a wrestler from a balcony? Damn. Rough crowd.

[@jscottrockford]

Love The Hammer’s stories........could listen to him all day!

[@violentshemp7776]

they aren't called massholes for nothin'

[@josemontano7767]

Who would have known Valentine would tell great road stories.

[@leogetz3570]

That's a great picture of Mulligan, you can definitely see Barry Windham in him!!!

[@SMcCord74]

Very flattered to hear The Hammer talk about Lowell the way he did.

[@jimscarnivorekitchen4731]

Great vid Hammer 🔨

[@chrisi.2117]

Lol! Luv the Hammer. I’m from Greater Boston and can’t dispute a word he said! :-)

[@Drpluv187]

Hammer is always polished & sharp as a tack.=)

[@FigFinder78]

I absolutely love Valentine's demeanor,loved watching him as a kid..💯

[@thehouseofcm]

Love hearing about the fans and different cities. I thought Bill Russell was harassed cause of race only but this puts another perspective.

[@MrJjburgess11]

I lived in Rhode Island my whole life. Winter can be tough . But it's usually only bad for 3 months . January- March .

[@InnocentFurryCat-we6yz]

He does tell some awesome stories

[@RobBreatheInTheAir]

Could listen to Greg all day

[@Am0ment0fB]

It's not the weather Greg. They just wicked mean period. Ha.

[@Am0ment0fB]

Legalized weed been helping with that though. Ha.

[@thegobbledygooker731]

For sure man...I always looked over my shoulder in Boston unless I had my big friends Foley and Dooley with me. And even then...

[@loboblanco4426]

Wicked mean? You could be from Boston after saying that..

[@jimmybrock6593]

🙂🖐👍🏴‍☠️🇨🇭🇺🇲 As teenager saw John Valentine,Blackjack,Wahoo many times at Anderson &Greenville, SC true stuntman, unlike today!!!

[@brianpendergast2894]

He's right on about the weather!!

[@JORDAN.1024]

As a native Bostonian... He hasn't told one lie.

[@tomsamuelson8512]

I remember when Bob Windham started out in the AWA as a referee. He later started wrestling and became Black Jack Mulligan and was teamed with Black Jack Lanza. Of course his sons became excellent pro wrestlers too.(Barry&Kendell).

[@cys-fi6230]

The weather is excellent in Massachusetts. The culture is just mean. Very clean air, low humidity excellent spring, summer and fall. Winters can be brutal and most of the beaches are pretty bad except maybe in Cape Cod. Actually the only thing I miss about Mass is the weather haha.

[@spottss]

Weather sucks there too. Humid as Florida in summer and blizzard like conditions and road hazards in winter

[@initra25]

He wears the coolest sport jackets

[@stephaniestone2886]

"Those Boston fans was MEAN" Said the man whose job it was to make fans love and or hate him as much as possible...

[@douglasgantt9548]

Love Greg, man. Great stories.

[@rockyford3]

Greg the hammer was and is still one of my favorites..such legends and memories.. I totally enjoyed this era

[@palerider6099]

Met Greg at a convention center once ,he is a cool guy

[@strothermartin5368]

BlackJack was a nice guy. I worked security at the old Capitol Centre.

[@briansam2524]

Greg Valentine may have been a "heel" in the ring but a hell of a nice guy outside of it, he gave me and my brother an autograph and took the time to talk to with us. Funny thing is, when it came to autographs, the heels were really the "good guys".

[@jameskelly6612]

The Hammer is awesome.

[@bobnewfart]

I love to listen to Greg's shoots man.

[@matthewdunham1689]

Wish I could show Greg the Cape of Cod. 😂❤

[@zacharyandre8254]

I'm from the Boston area. Hes correct about the people here. I thought it was like that everywhere until I got older and got to travel lol. Greg is cool guy.

[@energyasylum997]

👍👌😂

[@mox19380]

The Hammer isn't wrong that there are only 3 months of summer like weather in Massachusetts. But they do have their share of good beach spots (nantucket, cape cod, martha's vineyard). But again you can only really go to those places in late LATE June, July and August.

[@DaveWeltman]

He tells it as it is

[@ddo8521]

his story about Boston is off the wall hilarious... starts at 3:20 ROFL

[@energyasylum997]

😂👌

[@robertjantz3728]

Greg's the man. As shitty as he was as a heel in wrestling is as nice as he is in real life, great guy.

[@usa91787]

Black Jack Lanza. Had the Texas Brain Buster. He was part of the Bobby Heenan stable with Wicked Nick Bockwinkle and Ray The Crippler Stevens in the AWA back in the 60's and 70's. They were great heels. Ken Patera I think still has a gym here in the Twin Cities. I met him after he was done. Never talked to him when I worked as an usher / security at AWA matches in the Mid-70's.

[@warrenbates2949]

Flair probably told them.

[@DanielMartin-rd6pm]

They need to make a wwe superstars of this legend definite must for my collection

[@chrislawson7983]

Awesome, thanks.

[@jasonlmeadows]

Damn I always remember The Hammer as the big heel of the era I grew up watching. I had also heard stories about him being an a** but after watching him in these interviews it appears those stories were flat out wrong. He truly seems like a cool guy and absolutely has great stories!

[@easyriderrider4580]

"Man... This Really SUCKS!!"... Luv D Hammer, man!! 💜❤️💜😎😎😎👍👍👍🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤣😂😅😂😅😅😅😅

[@millcityflexxx4770]

Lmaoooo I’m from Lowell ma and I know what he’s talking about 😂😂😂😂..

[@kylemcgill2966]

I'm from CT and he's telling the truth, sadly lol

[@xtophermarley]

The answer is obvious: it's the large Irish population in Mass. It's a cliche that the Irish are famous for drinking and fighting. It's also true.

[@Tweet_Wrestling]

I never heard of the Blackjack Mulligan story before.

[@leogetz3570]

me neither, I had to look it up. It happened in 1971 and the attacker was never caught

[@ront3333]

Love ya Hammer.

[@smittyinwootown5640]

At 3:20 He talks about Boston , Worcester and Lowell. He’s rite. I went to a Ton of Matches in the 80s. One time I was at at the Boston Gahden and Tony Atlas and Rocky Johnson ( The Father) were wrestling Mr. Fuji and Mr. Siato we’re on the card. In the crowd, I witnessed a huge brawl between ton of Guys some Asians dressed like Fuji and Saito and some Black Guys dressed like Atlas and Johnson, just beating the Crap out of each other. Just an out and out Brawl. There was like 40 of em. Pretty Hairy for like 5 minutes. Boston Cops everywhere. Worth the 10 bucks I paid at the door. Wrestling at the Gahden in the late 70s early 80s was the best. Got to see Andre The Giant. In Person he’s mega Huge. That was the best wrestling. Period. I miss those days. I see a lot of it on KZbin. Thank God.

[@dabunnyman9133]

I was at Boston Garden when Mulligan was knifed during his match with Morales. Monsoon was special ref and tossed the guy out of the ring.

[@spookinoff]

I love these stories of guys trying to beat the hell out of each other off camera, and then when it's over they're like "eh, it's alright man." Reminds of a different time, when men knew how to settle things, and also let go of things. No sniping at each other social media, and then holding a years-long grudge like girls

[@brianticas7671]

Beefcake seems to be a burden man. He gets valentine fined, eric bischoff said he peed in a airplane ✈️ after getting drunk and stewardess was mad. Eric paid the bill 💸 and Hogan always had to vouch so he can have a job.

[@keithmanning5279]

I actually saw the hammer walking down revere Beach one day. Hes a trip...

[@Davepool-hs7vr]

I witnessed someone giving the Big Boss Man when he was walking to the ring. Lucky for him, BBM declined to press charges.

[@muhammad_alshammari84]

All hail Mr Valentine!

[@FreshlyWILD]

I can’t hate for the compartmentalized segments

[@jonathanduplantis1403]

Barry looks like his dad so much

[@johnlewisbrooks]

I saw a fan attack Wahoo McDaniel and he hit that poor sod with e belly slap that sent him.over the rail into the 3rd seat! You didn't mess with thst guy lol!

[@coryhollywood6021]

I totally agree with Greg on Boston